Category Archive for "Personal Growth & Development"

Any type of rewarding accomplishment is naturally challenging. It takes substantial initiative as well as sacrifice, sometimes over a considerable amount of time. In essence, it takes true grit resilience, as in this post I wrote a while back. I have

Life is not linear. Some of the world’s greatest discoveries in science or its achievements in literature resulted from the scientists or writers taking a winding or indirect course. Life is more like a meandering journey, and no one

The well-known American admonition to “Go west, young man, go west!” was about a promise of a wonderful life on the other side of the continent. To the family and friends of the leaving pioneers the association must have been

In psychology, there is a term that is called “secondary gain,” or pay-off. It is a form of protection that our subconscious mind creates and perpetuates by running a story (i.e. “That’s my story and I am sticking with it”)